What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want." "Hey, what about the ugly ones?" "The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.