- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

I have found my voice again and the art of using it.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!