As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.