I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.