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.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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

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

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.