“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”

“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”

“Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life”