News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.