the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.