Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.