Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

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.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.