The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.