I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.