Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.