God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.