It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.