I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

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?

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.