We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.