Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.- Jules Renard
Words are the small change of thought.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
There are moments when everything goes well, but do not be frightened.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
The bourgeois are other people.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
