Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!