A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.