“When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.”
“It's a horrible thing to have your body fail you. You never think about it when you're young.”
“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.”
“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”