Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man’s love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.

I put my trust in the Living God.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.