If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.