There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.