Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.