But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.