In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.