The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I really didn’t intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it.