Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

A good laugh is the best pesticide.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.