The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.