I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.