Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.