Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.