The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.