“Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.”

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

“Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.”

“To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.”

“It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.”

“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.”

“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to enrich the spirit; that novels have been conceived at the very least, to entertain us; and even, optimistically, that sociological solutions are a guide to solving something. Viewing the situation calmly, I realized that the first (poetry) was capable of impoverishing the richest spirit, the second of boring the most joyful, the third of confusing the most lucid.”