Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?