There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.
Elliot PerlmanWhat else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?
Elliot PerlmanCharisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
Elliot PerlmanHe sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others
Elliot Perlman