When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

Speak truth to power.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.