If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.