It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
~ Jules Renard
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
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.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Words are the small change of thought.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
