When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

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

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.