How different it all was from what you'd planned.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

He felt married to her, that was all.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.