Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.