“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“Thats life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like its nothing. If you ask me I dont think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thats ...”

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many ...”

“I do feel that Ive managed to make something I could maybe call my worldover timelittle by little. And when Im inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to ...”

“The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat in...”