I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.