Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.