Writing is the supreme solace.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.