Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.