For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.