The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.