I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?