Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.