“If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.”

“Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.”

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

“You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?”

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.”

“I love for the sake of what I have loved, and what I have loved I would not go back to loving.”

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”