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“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”
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“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
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“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”
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“And he loves her. He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers. And no matter how close he gets, even when they make love, it never feels close enough.”