When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.