In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

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

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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.