Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.