Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all