The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.