I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

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.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.