What do any of us really know about love?

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.