For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.