It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.