Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.