Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

We are minor in everything but our passions.