We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves