I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

A little of what you fancy does you good.