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.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.