Great artists have no country.
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldnโt know it by heart