...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.