There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.