A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

Nature is only another chimera.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

Once you start shaving you're done at Disney.

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out."

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.