"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'"

"I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"The sea is my soul, and the sky is my heart."