In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.