I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
Style is to forget all styles.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.