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

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

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

What a delight it is to respect people!

I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!