Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.