Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.