“It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.”

“It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.”

“I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.”

“To fare on - fusing the self that wakes and the self that dreams.”

“I'm like the trunk of a cactus, I suppose." she told him. "I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for a while until I get thirsty again.”

“Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.”

“Take my love for granted," he said, "and I shall do the same for you.”