with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.