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

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.

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.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.