When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

When men make gods, there is no God.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

The sea hates a coward.

The old / like children / talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!