A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.