You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

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

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

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.