Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.