Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.