I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.