In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.