I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.