or the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word never. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're faced with a real "never again."

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.