...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

The whole world is going insane right now. We, too, have our own problems. The president of Lebanon is an arch-menace. But I think, as horrid as he is - and he is absolutely insane - he's still more sane than Trump, so that tells me a lot.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.