The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

One who lives with Faith says IT WILL HAPPEN, while the one who lives without it asks WILL IT HAPPEN?

When you appreciate the blessings in life, your soul rejoices.

No one will ever love me that much again.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.