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

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

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.

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.