Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.