We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.