Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Life without pain has no meaning.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.