“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

“The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.”

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”

“El color de la verdad es gris.”