I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!