When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.