“If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.”
“The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns.”
“Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes”
“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.”
“She turned towards me, put her fingertips against my chest. She was enjoying it somewhat, too, the little betrayal of Mark's memory. She still loved him, differently; now and again there must be these retrospective cruelties, to consolidate her newness, to let her not love him in the old way.”
“If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.”