Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

The triumph of vegetation is total.

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

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.