If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.