I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face