The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.