It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.