Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.