never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.