Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.