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.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.