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

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

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

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.