“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.”

“But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

“Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.”

“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”

“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”

“One word ‘love’ has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.”