Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.