She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

“You will admit that if it was not life it was magnificent.”

“These things excite me so,’ she whispered. ‘If you want to kiss me any time dur…”

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

“Biography is the falsest of the arts.”