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

“You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.”

“...and here, in this if I always lose myself.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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.”

“Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.”