A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.