Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
I like marriage. The idea.
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.