I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.