Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.