A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?