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

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.