Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.