“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”

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.

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

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.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that’s greater than yourself.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.