Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ... It is the sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope ... Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Writing is a form of therapy; how do all those who do not write, compose, or paint manage to escape the melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in the human condition?