No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Necessity knows no rules.

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.