Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.