Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.