I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.