“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

“The living blind and seeing Dead together lie
As if in love... There was no more hating then,
And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.”

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”

“Dijkstra probably hates me.”

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

“I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.”

“When art separates this thick tangle of feelings, love bares its bones.”