Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.