Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Novels are longer than life.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.