“I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.”

“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.”

“For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.”

“God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“Do you believe in love at first sight?Or do I need to walk past again?”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”