“Start as you mean to go on.”

“Then I pulled off her boots, desperate to enter our world of touch and skin, trailed fingers, that strange elation of lovemaking where the body of another can lift you from your own mortal flesh and put you at some height above a bed of twisted sheets and tangled limbs, with no way of knowing where one self starts and the other ends.”

“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be,And will you no come back again?”

“Certainly a man can be destroyed by the love of a woman, of this much I'm sure. But do you really believe a man can be saved by this love?”

“Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.”

“..And if I'm looking for a definition of love then perhaps this is it. That another person can help fill the empty space inside us. Even when they're gone.”

“With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.”