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

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.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?