A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.