Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.

... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.