Style is to forget all styles.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

The less I understand life, the more I live it!