I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

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