Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.