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.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.