Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Writing is busy idleness.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.