People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.
...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.
Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped. Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.
