 We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. |
| The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. |
| Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. |
| The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. |
| The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. |
| Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. |
| Men! The only animal in the world to fear. |
| God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. |
| There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. |
| I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. |
| Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. |
| One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. |
| Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. |
| One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. |
| Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
| One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. |
| Only in a novel are all things given full play. |
| Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. |
| I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. |
| Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. |
