“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

Everything in life is writable.

I woke to the sound of rain.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Repetition continues as long as you let in.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

One of the most difficult things is life is to continue running your hardest when you don’t know the end point.

Perfection comes from the disinterested performance of an action on a continuous basis.