It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.