“What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters.”

“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”

“I can't go on like this”

“The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.”

“Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eat...”

“Everyone can use a little beauty.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”