Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.