Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.