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.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

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

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

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!