“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the e...”

“In this book time thus flows in a tempo opposite that of real life: the tempo slows down as the years go by.”

“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so into...”