The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.