The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

My holy of holies is the human body.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.