I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

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

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

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

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.