Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.