There is no friend as loyal as a book.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
In order to write about life first you must live it.