“Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?”

“Lie through your teeth and call it a novel. All will be well.”

“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”

“Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination”

“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”