Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.