If money does not make you happy, give it back
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.