“The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.”

“It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.”

“The beautiful must be incongruous.”

“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”

“Hunger justifies the middle classes.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

“There is always a worthy prize for DISCOVERY. Discover what you love doing, develop and deploy it and LIFE has new meanings everyday”

“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.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

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