I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.