Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead

If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive