An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

I don't do evening business dinners and I don't do weekends.