Instead I will say, “Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.” These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
I don’t know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
Why do men feel threatened by women?
What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
Though as he’d say, what is ‘belief’ but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Kill what you can’t save what you can’t eat throw out what you can’t throw out bury What you can’t bury give away what you can’t give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.
Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can’t put love into a contract.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
More and more I feel like a letter – deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.
Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.