She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

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

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.