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

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.