Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.