“If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.”

“I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.”

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

“In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...”

“You oughtn't to see this," Will muttered in my ear. "You'll never want to have a baby if you do. They oughtn't to let women watch. It'll be the end of the human race.”

“I am sending back the keythat let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to meI am sending back the key;in his eye's darkroom I can seemy X-rayed heart, dissected body:I am sending back the keythat let me into bluebeard s study.”

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”