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

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

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

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

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