Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.