I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

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

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.