Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Integrity needs no rules.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.