Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds