Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.