Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."
