The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.