Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

We are born knowing death.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.