A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.