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

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

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

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.