The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.