Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.