Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. - Gertrude Stein

"We are always the same age inside."

"One must dare to be happy."

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

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."