No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.