... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Novels are longer than life.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.