A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.