It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.