I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

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.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.