I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.