Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.