People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

I always believe things are going to work out.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.