The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.

We still and always want waking.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.