Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Drama - what literature does at night.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.