Man is the inventor of stupidity.

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

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

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?

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time