Erich Segal

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

— Erich Segal

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces…

— Erich Segal

“Let's just run, huh?" Bob picked up the pace, hoping to tire his partner into silence. "That reminds me," Bernie puffed, "you…

— Erich Segal

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

— Erich Segal

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

— Erich Segal

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive."…

— Erich Segal

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

— Erich Segal

“I mean, imagine for a second Olivero Barretto, some nice Italian kid from down the block in Cranston, Rhode Island. He comes…

— Erich Segal

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living -…

— Erich Segal

“What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That,"…

— Erich Segal

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

— Erich Segal

“Min­nie Four-Eyes.”

— Erich Segal

We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention…

— Erich Segal

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

— Erich Segal

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said,…

— Erich Segal

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

— Erich Segal

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

— Erich Segal

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

— Erich Segal

But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated.…

— Erich Segal

“They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could…

— Erich Segal

“I began to think about God. I mean, the notion of a Supreme Being existing somewhere began to creep into my private…

— Erich Segal

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit…

— Erich Segal

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

— Erich Segal

“- A trecut de 21 de ani, Rosie. O sa fie doctor. Lasa-l sa-si foloseasca stetoscopul sa-si asculte propria inima.”

— Erich Segal

“I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had to…

— Erich Segal