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.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

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.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.