Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Children are the keys of paradise.