Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.