If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

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.

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

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.