The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have….

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself..

Only the impossible lasts forever..

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole..

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last..

She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let ….

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all..

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me..

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward..

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed..

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million….

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow..

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties..

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment..

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy..

Destiny and history are untidy..

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into..

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that di….

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on..

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?.