You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.