“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must… — Roman Payne Alcohol quotes Copy Share Image
“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To… — Roman Payne Artemis 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
“She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every… — Roman Payne Angel Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Aphrodite Copy Share Image
“There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the… — Roman Payne Drunk Copy Share Image
“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards… — Roman Payne Beauty 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
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of… — Roman Payne Errant Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once:… — Roman Payne Death Copy Share Image
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,… — Roman Payne Adventure 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
“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 Beliefs Copy Share Image
“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.” — Roman Payne Love Copy Share Image
“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand… — Roman Payne Beauty Copy Share Image
“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.” — Roman Payne Birth Copy Share Image
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences… — Roman Payne Adventure Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Dreams Copy Share Image
“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not… — Roman Payne Beauty 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
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Adventure Copy Share Image
“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write… — Roman Payne Books Copy Share Image
“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 Cities-and-countries Copy Share Image
