Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
If money does not make you happy, give it back.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Words are the small change of thought.
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
Style is to forget all styles.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.