We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

Don't waste your time on life.