"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"I am a man of the world, and I have seen many things."

"The only way to escape from the past is to live in the present."

"I have not been able to write a line for a long time. I am very tired, and very sad."