I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.