It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.