Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.