You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
I'm too old to make drawings.