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

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

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.