Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.