“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”

“I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

“As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.”

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”

“if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”