Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.