Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.