We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.