“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”

“It’s easy to slide into believing you’re the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what’s real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you’re still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It’s more cunning than you are, it’s faster and it’s a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.”

“Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life. It’s staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it’s knowing you... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures—when all that’s on the shelf and done with.”

“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

“Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]”