“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us”

“I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”

“Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.”