there is no pornography without a secrecy.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.