The sea only drowns its lovers.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.