Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

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.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?