"Had I been in possession of the as yet undiscovered little remote telephone which one carries around in one's pocket, you would have long ago received communications from me."

"I owe my art to suffering."

"There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love."

"The strange light illuminated all those night-time meetings that took place in every imaginable sort of café; the lips mouthing defiant words, heedless of restraint or consequence, often overbearing a…"

"—I have kissed a corpse such was that kiss—"