"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down."

"Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow."

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning."

"The ideal of the 'good man' is a slave morality."

"A man who wants to do great things must know how to suffer."