Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.