Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.