One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.