It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

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.

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

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

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

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.