Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate….

I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could s….

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think i….

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war..

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, ….

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven..

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy..

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself..

Very often history is a means of denying the past..

What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught aga….

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficul….

He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothi….

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not ….

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must….

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new exper….

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders….

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What do….

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persu….

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros..

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them..

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject..