In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.