To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

We take death to reach a star