Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

In fact living is dying.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.