Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.