A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Italy is not a country for beginners.