Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.