We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Only in the present do things happen.