“Something had lubricated us. Something had washed us clean. I understood, and at the same minute I understood that that they all understood, too. Hate had passed away, and in its place was the other word that's just as big. ("Golden Baby")”
“Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
“I understood the meaning of the word swoon — I had become the very definition.”
“If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...”
“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”
“One place understood helps us understand all places better”