To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

I am a moralist. I worry.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.