The Beginning of Atonement

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Walter Benjamin

Gardens at Twilight

"The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above."
Paul Bowles

Kensington Gardens, London

This was Venice, the flattering and suspect Beauty

'This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.'

Thomas Mann

Deeds, Words, Gasps, and Glances

Window Shadow Photographs

"Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories."

Elie Wiesel

Palm Trees - A Sense of an Exotic

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase - "I love you".

F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Offshore Pirate

Of Memory

'It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

F.Scott Fitzgerald