Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.