When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still?

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.