Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

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

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.