The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

I think it is all a matter of love.