Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.