Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

How strange women are.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.