There's always world enough and time.

But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.