Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.