Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.