Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.