Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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

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.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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.

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

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