A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.