We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage