1. “I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.”
2. “If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”
3. “Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.”
4. “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the head empties.”
5. ”The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
6. ”There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”
7. ”The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
8. ”Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”