I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as to why we were ever alive. Even the avowed atheist probably thinks that in death he'll get som...
We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would...
Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghostly...
I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.
We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.
I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.
Maybe we do go home, finally.
I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.
To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.
Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.
Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.
And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of d...
I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.
