Brevity - the sister of talent.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.