Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.

As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit