A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

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

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

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

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

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

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.