“As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.”

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

We’ll grow old waiting.

And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

I’m never satisfied. I’m always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Better do nothing than do ill.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.