Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

The free man never thinks of escape.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?