What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.