This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.