“Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.”

“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”

“If you are constantly in pain; seek out love; you will find the pain has been cut in half.”

“That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

“I want him to love me as much as I love him.”

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”

“Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.”

“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.

Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”

“What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”