I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.