The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.