“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

“She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.”

“If you can do it then why do it?”

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”