“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly… — Roman Payne Moon Copy Share Image
“SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Desire Copy Share Image
“Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and… — Roman Payne Death Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, Or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, and lives most heroic, When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of… — Roman Payne Amour Copy Share Image
“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed… — Roman Payne Payne Copy Share Image
“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your… — Roman Payne Freedom Copy Share Image
“My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Books Copy Share Image
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the… — Roman Payne Affections Copy Share Image
“I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the… — Roman Payne Autumn Copy Share Image
“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls… — Roman Payne Anguish Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and… — Roman Payne Angel Copy Share Image
“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into… — Roman Payne Babies Copy Share Image
“The smell of a woman is her most important quality. I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those with… — Roman Payne Smell Copy Share Image
“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn… — Roman Payne Beauty Copy Share Image
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to… — Roman Payne Female empowerment Copy Share Image
“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical… — Roman Payne Beautiful women Copy Share Image
“I thought of the fifteen years I lived 'sans papiers' in France and how Paris had belonged to me. I was like… — Roman Payne Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Different countries Copy Share Image
“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs… — Roman Payne Beauty Copy Share Image
“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made… — Roman Payne Alcohol Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Authors Copy Share Image
“I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and… — Roman Payne Eternity Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are… — Roman Payne Moment Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Admiration Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne Adolescence Copy Share Image
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne Art Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy,… — Roman Payne Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” — Roman Payne Adventure Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Books Copy Share Image
“I took her to bed with silk and song 'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long, I must prepare my body… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Art Copy Share Image
