I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.