When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.