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I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some order.she works it outmathmaticallyshe solves all herp...more

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people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwit...more

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you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no ...more

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I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will...more

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the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

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I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I fucked R. and you fucked N.and because you fucked N...more

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love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

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After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don'...more

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Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

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and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

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some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

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and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mer...more

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Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply ...more

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She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

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A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prost...more