When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.