The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.