“In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do.”

“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”

“The heart is a place of secrets...”

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”

“Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation”

“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”