To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.