In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.