and love was lightning and remembrance

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.