Roman Payne

“Women are extraordinary creatures!”

— Roman Payne

“Analogies are like lies.”

— Roman Payne

“We all die in the middle of something.”

— Roman Payne

“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”

— Roman Payne

“She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.”

— Roman Payne

“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”

— Roman Payne

“A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.”

— Roman Payne

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

— Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

— Roman Payne

“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious…

— Roman Payne

“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of…

— Roman Payne

“Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to…

— Roman Payne

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew…

— Roman Payne

“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but…

— Roman Payne

“From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.”

— Roman Payne

“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than…

— Roman Payne

“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn…

— Roman Payne

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle…

— Roman Payne

“In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency…

— Roman Payne

“In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets of women and men, Of gods and dreams. I've known all the…

— Roman Payne

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once:…

— Roman Payne

“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I…

— Roman Payne

“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her…

— Roman Payne

“So the nymphs they spoke, we kissed and laid. By noontime’s hour our love was made. Like braided chains of crocus stems,…

— Roman Payne

“With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me…

— Roman Payne

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,…

— Roman Payne

“This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was…

— Roman Payne

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came…

— Roman Payne

“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.' ...I jot this…

— Roman Payne

“We rode the basement trains all night, speeding through the subterrains. I held her chin in the cup of my hand and…

— Roman Payne

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the…

— Roman Payne

“I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the…

— Roman Payne

“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed…

— Roman Payne

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”

— Roman Payne

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

— Roman Payne

“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.”

— Roman Payne