A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.