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.
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
Medicine: "Your money and your life!
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.