“I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.”
“I don't want people to know me for my perfection, I want people to know me for my imperfections”
“We are all imperfect creatures, love. I don't want perfect. I just want you.”
“I want a perfect garden.... I want a perfect soul”
“Look, writers aren't perfect, I want to cry, any more than husbands and wives are perfect. The only unfailing rule is, If they seem so, they can't be.”
“Just you and me. That's all, Jake. I know it might not be perfect. I don't want or expect perfect. I just want you.”