Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom