All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.