Balzac Quotes

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.