Words are the small change of thought.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

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.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.