Sheep with a nasty side.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.