All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.