Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.