I'm too old to make drawings.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.