What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.