Silences can be as different as sounds.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

life is a succession of readjustments.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.