Quotes from Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

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

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.

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

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer's 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.