“Z ponurych proroków wieków minionych nowy wiek uczynił głupców”

“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

“-You are on the verge of being truly mad.-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?”

“Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?”

“And it was not merely the dry hissing coil of the thirst that was quenched and dissolved, it was all my craving, all the want and misery and hunger that I had ever known.”

“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

“I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give.”