For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.