I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

I got nervous when I didn't know where we were. I was so scared that he was going to kill me. He said he was going to take me back home, but then he said maybe he wouldn't.

Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spanish shawl on your shoulders,

A red rose in your hair.


"Beauty is simple," they will tell you —

Clumsily with a motley shawl

You will cover a child up,

A red rose on the floor.


But, distractedly heeding

All the words sounding around you,

Sadly lost in thought

You will say about yourself:


'I am neither frightening nor simple;

I am not so frightening, that I would simply

Kill; I am not so simple

That I do not know how frightening life is.'

("For Anna Akhmatova")

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

One day, Lorna, I will dance this waltz with you again.