You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.