The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.