Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.