Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

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.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.