As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.