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

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

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.

The cliche is dead poetry.

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

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.