To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

Success is never so interesting as struggle