Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

The square root of I is I.

Look at this tangle of thorns.