A fish has no concept of water.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.