Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

I could never hate you as much as I love you.

Your reign of terror will soon be over, ” he stated confidently.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.