Traveling with Skeptics

Insignificant writers cannot be crushed, they lie too flat beneath the foot.

Honore de Balzac

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Clearly, this most presumptuous writer believes in nothing.

Gustave Flaubert

Since a person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance, this writer must be the happiest man in the world.

Anatole France

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. As soon as he ceased to be stupid he became merely this writer.

Marcel Proust

This author should be deconstructed with the aid of a guillotine.

Jacques Derrida

There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is this author's suicide ... or murder.

Albert Camus

If Hell is other people, then this writer can go to Hell.

Jean-Paul Sartre