“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”

“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”

“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”

“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”