“Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.”

“The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.”

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

“Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite”

“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”

“Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?”