The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.