For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.