You don’t make art out of good intentions.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.