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

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

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.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.