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

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.