Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.