If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

Memory is a great betrayer.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.