I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

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

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.