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

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

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

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.

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

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