My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

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 be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.