“L'attesa lunga, il mio sogno di te non finito.”

“...friendship is something you do.”

“Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.”

“Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.”

“There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.”

“...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.”

“I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.”