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

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

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

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.