Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.