The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

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