You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.