The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

There are worse prisons than words.