Erich Segal

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”

“Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.”

“He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment."Which one is that?" I asked her."Do not bullshit thy father," she said.”

“I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.”

“Sometimes I amaze even myself.”

“This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.”

“I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!”

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

“Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.”

“And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.”

“I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tolower my eyes, I was so ashamed that even now Jenny was reading my mind so perfectly.'Listen, that's the only goddamn thing I'm asking, Ollie. Otherwise, I know you'll be okay.' That thing in my gut was stirring again, so I was afraid to even speak the word 'okay.' I justlooked mutely at Jenny.”