A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.