A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.