What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.