In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are