“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off....”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”