The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates 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.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Jazz is the music of the body.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.