People who understand everything get no stories.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?