By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.

“Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.