I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.