"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know oneself immortal."

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

"My greatest fear is not death, but oblivion."

"I have always been a man of imagination."

"Everything that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."