The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.