Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

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.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.