We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

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

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

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

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.