If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

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 journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time