A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.