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

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.

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

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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

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.

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.