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

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.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

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

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.