The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Facts always are sensational.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?