There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Good Evening to inline expectations have not materialized, I hope tomorrow you can be hugged with the smile that tick, under the morning light through the sweet lips.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.