My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.