Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.