Wanting is the beginning of getting.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.