How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

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

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

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

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

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