You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

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.

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

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

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

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?