“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”

“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.”

“Does Hallmark make a “Sorry I tried to drink your blood and touched you in a vaguely inappropriate manner” card? I settled for “How much do you remember?”

“Try your best in everything you do...except if you are trying to make others happy...that is something that only they can do for themselves.”

“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.”

“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”