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

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

I am not for women but against men.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.