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.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

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

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?

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.