What a sad business is being funny!

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.