I'm scarcely an enfant!

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

I know the next best thing is often the very best.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

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

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.