Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.

I desire therefore I exist.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

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

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.