All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and 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 one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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.

Exuberance is better than taste.