I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.