Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

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

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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.