People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.