1. “One must dare to be happy.”
2. “The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.”
3. “Nothing is more interesting than that something you eat.”
4. “The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
5. “You have to know what you want to get it.”
6. “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
7. “It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.”
8. “For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause everybody accepts.”
9. “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
10. “Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?”
11. “Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.”
12. “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
13. “The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.”
14. “It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
15. “A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”
16. “Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
17. “It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
18. “Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.”
19. “Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”
20. “This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”
21. “Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.”
22. “Art isn’t everything. It’s about everything.”
23. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
24. “Money is always there but the pockets change.”
25. “There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”
26. “Silent gratitude isn’t much to anyone.”
27. You have to learn to do everything, even to die”.”
28. “It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
29. “Action and reaction are equal and opposite.”
30. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
