It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Talent is nothing but long patience.