“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

“The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising sun. Only the juvenile, the mad, and the newly in love noticed. The rest of the city got its head down and ploughed tearily into another day of neurosis.”

“Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.”

“You love life because life's all there is.”

“Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.”

“Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.”

“Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.”