Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.