“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”

“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

“The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.”

“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”

“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.”

“Fate is not in man but around him”