No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.