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.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

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

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

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.