“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.”

“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

“Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.”

“For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.”

“Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")”

“An extreme passion of any human being is to be unique”