A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.