Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.