The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.