This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I'm too old to know everything

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.