A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.