The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.