Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.