A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep