Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?