He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.