The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.