I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

The future is the worst thing about the present.