An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.