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.

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 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.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.