As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

Don't fear failure, fear inaction.

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.