That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat

At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.