Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.