isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

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

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

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