“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....”
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”
“If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.”
“There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.”
“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”