Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.