A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Failure too is a form of death.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.