What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.