If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

You write in order to change the world.

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

You cannot fix what you will not face.