I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.