Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.