one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

Plot is the knowing of destination.