“It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.”

“It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.”

“There's a phrase over the door; she called to him. "Haec est porta coeli."..."Here is the gate to heaven.”

“Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.”

“I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank”

“It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.”

“Take my love for granted," he said, "and I shall do the same for you.”