Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.