A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Exuberance is better than taste.