Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

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.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

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.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.