When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.