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.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.