A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.