If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

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

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.