 Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. |
| I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. |
| A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. |
| Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. |
| The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. |
| There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. |
| It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. |
| Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. |
| A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. |
| My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. |
| Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. |
| Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. |
| Caress the detail, the divine detail. |
| No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. |
| The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. |
| Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. |
| Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. |
| There is only one school of literature - that of talent. |
| Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. |
| I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. |
