Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.