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

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

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?