The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

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.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

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