“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

I will go down with my colours flying.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.