“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

“In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”

“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”

“By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.”