“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”

“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.”

“Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.”

“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”

“She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.”

“Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest. ”

“To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.”