- "Sometimes I get upset when I consider the fact that the self is an illusion produced by the combination of neurology and environment, and that we are all empty, unique little shells. It's like auto-erotic asphyxiation, in a way." (Y.J. Greenapple)
- "Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does." (Everything Is Illuminated)
- "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- "I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it."" (Dilys Laing)
- "Hang yourself, poet, by your words. Otherwise, you are dead." (Langston Hughes)
- "No person is a wanderer unless he's had a home..." (Kit Porter)
- "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one." (Andre Gide)
- "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." (Honore de Balzac)
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