When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Successful software always gets changed.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.