Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody.