It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.