I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.