As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one’s self.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

There are moments when everything goes well; don’t be frightened, it won’t last.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

L’amore è come una clessidra: man mano che il cuore si riempie, il cervello si svuota.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn’t like the country and never looks at it.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.