“But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.”

“I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.”

“When someone harms those whom we love, we must do as we must. And I had always loved Frannie.”

“You must know that I do not love and that I love you,because everything alive has its two sides;a word is one wing of silence,fire has its cold half.I love you in order to begin to love you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that’s why I do not love you yet.I love you, and I do not love you, as if I heldkeys in my hand: to a future of joy-a wretched, muddled fate-My love has two lives, in order to love you.-Sonnet XLIV”

“If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.”

“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”