First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.