There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.