“I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.”
“This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.”
“I should never have loved him . . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone.”
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”
“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.”