Act quickly, think slowly.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.