In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

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

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.