The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

One must make one's own mistakes

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.