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

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

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.