Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early – almost before you’re half-acquainted with life – you meet the other.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don’t want glory like that in nobody’s heart.
Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don’t mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over.
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.
He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you.
There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Everybody is nothing until you love them.
It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.