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.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.