Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.