Why is love intensified by absence?

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

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.