“It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.”

“People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.”

“Rational was for people who didn’t have a broken heart.”

“People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don’t try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages.”

“A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.”

“Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.”