I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.