Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.