You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Love is the cheapest of religions.