"It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week."

"I was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute."

"Cannibalism is one of the most evident manifestations of tenderness."

"So little of what could happen does happen."

"I prefer to be a madman, with the madness of an artist, than a sane man, with the sanity of a philistine."