To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

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

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

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