It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.