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.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

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.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.