Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.