Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

I am the worst judge of my books.