When the gods wish to punish, they answer our prayers.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Life is so important that it can never be talked about seriously.

Morality is simply the attitude we hold towards people whom we personally do not like.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somehow overestimated his ability.

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is very happy.

Memory... It is the diary that we all keep for ourselves.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The world is a stage, but the drama is badly played.

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do nothing for her, except continue his love for her.

Women love us for our flaws. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our giant intellect.

Hate is blind, like love.

Books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world their shame.

Talking about the weather is the last refuge of fantasy.

I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.

I like people more than principles, and I like people without principles more than anything else in the world.