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

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

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.

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.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.