"Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature."

"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."

"A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading."

"What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?"

"I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach."

"Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure."

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."

"A peaceful heart knows that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."