If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?