[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.

- I'll be better tomorrow.- No you won't. But that's okay...I'll wait.- For how long?- How long will I wait? Take forever and multiply it by infinity. And then I'll wait some more.

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.