Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.