If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

One must dare to be happy.