To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.