Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

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.