Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

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.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.