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

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

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

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

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.