Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as though they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them - all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.