Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

As long as one suffers one lives.