I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.