To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.