People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.