All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

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.