We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

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

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.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.