It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Man is a child of his environment

to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.