An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.