Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?