Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
Love is worth whatever it costs.
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.