Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.