I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

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

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

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

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.