A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.