Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

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

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.