Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom