Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

It takes time, or does time take it?

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

What would New York be without slavery?

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.