It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.