Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.