Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
The fool knows after he's suffered.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Do dreams outlast dreamers, or do dreamers outlast dreams, in all honesty?
Art is what separates us from the animals.
They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!
We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
It's those damn critics again.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
The writer works in a lonely way.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
