Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.