An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

The bourgeois are other people.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.