Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.