This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.