“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the ki...”

“Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.”

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”