There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

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

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.