It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.