Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends