Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.