“An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.”
“She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.”
“At the heart of ech of us,whatever the imperfections..exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm....which connect us to the universe.”
“The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.”
“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
“The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.”