We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs, mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

The world is generally multivariate

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about what you have tried and failed, But what is still possible for you to do. To live is to change.