Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Art is science in the flesh.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.