Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.