Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.