Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

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

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

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.