If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?