All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

But did thee feel the earth move?