The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.