If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.