One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

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

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

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes