No amount of promises can guarantee love

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

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

...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.

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?

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.