I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.