To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

There is always time to take more time.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.