To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.