Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.