I want to be a society vampire, you see.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

The rich are different from us.