Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.