If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.