"Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. "

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.