Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

You must render: never report.

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.