All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.