Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

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

Art does not tolerate reason.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.