...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

If a guy can't handle your crazy pictures, he's probably not someone you want in your life.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state