You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

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.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

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.

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.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.