I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.