“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

“But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.”

“If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably i...”

“There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.”

“I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”