Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.