The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.