Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.