And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.