If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.