“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”

“Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.”

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“Tell me if the lovers are losers… tell me if any get more than the lovers.”

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

“Every lover is a soldier.”
Militat omnis amans

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”