It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

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.

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.

Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.