A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.