It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.