If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.