“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”

“Dawn's faint breathbreathes with your mouthat the ends of empty streets.Gray light your eyes,sweet drops of dawnon dark hills.Your steps and breathlike the wind of dawnsmother houses.The city shudders,Stones exhale—you are life, an awakening.Star lostin the light of dawn,trill of the breeze,warmth, breath—the night is done.You are light and morning.”

“There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)”

“But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.”