"It's not love, or tenderness, or affection, it's life itself, my life, that I found what I saw it in your hands, in your month and in your breasts. I have the taste of almonds from your lips in my mou…"

"Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit."

"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim."

"There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat's luck."

"I wish I were dead! I don't know why I have to go living like this."