[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.