We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.