I'll never fall in love again, " he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone, " she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.

During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.

She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..."Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.

The world must be peopled!