When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

I want nothing from You but to see You.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.